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Sunday has been interesting and informative … I have learned a lot.
Pravda comments section refused any uploads of images, so I called upon my co-worker Michael.
Michael attempted uploads on his computer which is a very fast eight core machine.
He had work to do in the garden but left his computer on at the Pravda comments page and I returned home.
Later Michael, who is a computer whizz, phoned me to say something very strange had happened … his computer had frozen up and the CPU usage readings were at maximum levels. This indicates his computer has been searched and information has been uploaded.
Michael held the computer start button in to shut the machine down and then the machine was restarted without problems.

… thankyou very much and will pass this on.
I have sent the journalist information of what occurred on Sunday.

Tonight was handed a Linux Mint Cinnamon Tara install disk, but then got a call not to use it because there has been an upgrade to fix numerous bugs. Problems with menu entries not appearing has been addressed in Version 2 … the download address is below …

“…t a false flag is planned that frames Iran for an attack on the US Navy… I am told he was murdered by Bahreini security services at the request of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) element attached to the fifth fleet. I have no direct knowledge. My source tells me he was murdered because he explicitly opposed the planned false flag attack in collaboration with the Israeli Navy simulating an Iranian patrol boat missile attack on a US naval vassal [sic]…”

Some may recall the affair of the MSTS ship “Liberty” – a false flag that went somewhat wrong – ie the ship failed to sink and the men (many of them) failed to die.

How much am I a sinner ? Ask myself so oft
A mirror tells one thing, otherwise is soft
Who tells the truth, behind the inner curtain,
other than my conscience ?
My mind is trying hard, hiding the dirty rain,
arguing its nonsense.

My heart is heavy, my soul, as burning flame
And yet again I fall, the rationale I blame
For, who am I, to seek beyond the sky,
Jumping in the waves and trying then to fly ?

Oh, God, who’ll wash my soul, who’ll wash my sins,
Gathered in those days and now, at evening ?
I know, my clothes shall vanish with their grins
Returning to the dust, returning to their meaning,

Dust to dust and ashes to ashes
That borrowed coat must pay the price
For every lust, for daily clashes,
Playing the cat or playing the mice

And there’s my soul, the spirit above all
He shall remember everything,
From my depart, till the beginning,
From the beginning until the last call !

My mind has rationale, has wit
But it is also a complicit…
Teasing soul and spirit
With failed illusions…though so vivid!

What would spirit do and therefore, my soul
Without mind and body, if younger or old ?
They are bent together, as a working tool
Saving what is precious, taking out the gold,

Having its rules, building up a bridge
Between soul and between mind
Between warm and icy fridge
World of seer and world of blind

Walking on the road of truth and lie
The circumstances are already given,
The price to pay is always high
For mind, for soul, for spirit of Heaven

How much am I a sinner ? Ask myself so oft
A mirror tells one thing, otherwise is soft
But there is a Judge, at the end of my way,
He will tell me once, the price I’ll have to pay.

Dear mundo, I’m always glad when you come in with poetry, it’s a beautiful world you know that, following and reading the stars, muses and muses are teaming together, at least in this Cafe corner since it’s opening :

On the Alps
by ioan

On the Alps, winter is coming soon
You’re looking through the window
Rainy clouds are covering the moon
Coming from sea, heavy and low
Cold and humid out on streets,
Warm and dry your peaceful room
Glass of wine, machine on desk,
With your fingers typing soon…
Thoughts are gathering already
Witty words, like shining stars
Noch ein schluck, another slip
Music for your ears from Mars

Just before the Q Predicted Red Wave Mid-Terms US elections I made a report about it to far flung across America family members to introduce them to the Hopeful Prediction.

The Election came and went and a lot of confusion resulted in both the Red and the Blue Camps.

WHO won?
WHAT “wave”?

Not all Tsunamis are even felt by everyone. Their perception is delayed until they hit The Shore Of Public Consciousness. Out in the Timeless Ocean of Being….they pass silently under your keel, at high speed.

Events outside of the US Red-Blue struggle over delayed counting of votes and vote fraud evidence collection and prosecutions and resignations (Broward County) of election commissioners took over the spotlight with determined foreign and domestic Cabal/Empire efforts to prevent Trump and Putin from ever talking to each other again, except in passing in Paris and Buenos Aires……..OR anywhere else at any future event they both might attend.

So, naturally , almost all eyes shifted to Macron’s scheduling manipulations and intrigues in Paris and Poroshenko’s war brinksmanship stunts in the Sea of Azov, threatening the Kerch Bridge from Southern Russia to Crimea.

When the latter transparent globalist ploy succeeded in shutting down all communication between the nationalists Trump(?) and Putin in Argentina, the disgust with Trump among foreign and many domestic US nationalists was…..understandably….profound!

three days after the election but forgot to forward it to anyone in my family. The smoke hadn’t really cleared yet by November 9, but the upshot of all the angst, disappointment-then elation-then worry-then hope….then worry.. was best expressed, in my opinion by Neon Revolt’s article

a full eleven days later. Frustration is far preferable to torment, in other words, said Neon. “Their” Blue Anxiety is far worse than our Red Frustration at No First Round Knockout.

And things have moved forward at such a rapid pace, raising the stakes, by those suffering the worst desperation…..Deep State….their Pathetic Puppet Poroshenko….The British Empire…..the Clintons…in other words, the Traitors, Demons, Psychopaths and Cannibals…..and I mean baby-eating folk (React with disbelief, outrage, whatever you like….”Make My Day!”, is all I have to say!……) that concerns about WW III have kind of overshadowed the drama of “caught in the act of vote fraud” Democrats of Broward County , Florida (most blatant), Arizona and California and other internal to the USA drama……centered around some naval skirmishing near a Crimean Bridge whose minimal purpose (keep Trump and Putin from conferring in Buenos Aires this passing weekend) was achieved but whose secondary purpose (get Russian Navy to sink Ukrainian vessels approaching the Kerch Bridge between Russia proper and Crimea in order for Poroshenko to declare effective martial law and stay in office despite single digit approval rating….even at the risk of WWIII) was very much a flop in most every respect….. EXCEPT keeping the two nationalists apart:

Trump caving to the Ukrainian ploy (How much “time” can you buy before the Time To Spend It Runs Out?) trashes his stature among almost all nationalists ANYWHERE…..other than some die hard Q Followers.

Meanwhile, the Die Easy Ones are on their Deathbeds, requiring Life Support!

But “Pappy” Bush died first and Die Hard Neon Revolt got so inspired that he penned his latest article thusly:

Ya gotta love that fighting spirit in the Tough Awakening Going of Late 2018! LOL.

HOWEVER, Neon does facillate between Great Hope:

“A 2nd #ClintonFoundation Whistleblower!!

Oh, what a wonderful surprise!

Q didn’t seem too upset with the “leak” but he was stern; DO NOT reveal more.

And this comes hot-on-the-heels of Comey’s efforts to challenge his own subpoena, requiring him to testify on Monday as well. Comey, as we all know, has tweeted out a lot of grandstanding about making the hearing public – which would (conveniently) allow him to skirt around any questions regarding classified material, as well as allow other bad actors to coordinate their stories.”

And Great Frustration:

“And honestly, I don’t get why WHY WHY! Q does this, and I’m probably wrong with my guess, anyway. Watch it all get declassified before anyone testifies, anyways. Or watch Trump just dangle the threat declassification over their heads like the sword of Damocles the whole time. Your guess is literally as good as mine here, because it’s just not clear what approach we’re supposed to take. Once again, there’s Q’s trademark infuriating lack of clarity, leading us down frustrating dead-ends…….

(When this is all over and one, I’ll simultaneously want to hug, and punch Q. I swear).”

Now, I realize New Recruits to The Alliance Lack the Endurance of the Cabal, but maybe wait 36 hours before psychologically punching Q???

Because here’s the significant timetable for tomorrow, that Neon Revolt lays out early in the above “Extinguishing Points of Light” article:

“Q didn’t seem too upset with the “leak” but he was stern; DO NOT reveal more.

And this comes hot-on-the-heels of Comey’s efforts to challenge his own subpoena, requiring him to testify on Monday as well. Comey, as we all know, has tweeted out a lot of grandstanding about making the hearing public – which would (conveniently) allow him to skirt around any questions regarding classified material, as well as allow other bad actors to coordinate their stories……

A district court judge on Friday postponed issuing a ruling on former FBI Director James Comey’s effort to quash a GOP-issued subpoena.

Judge Trevor McFadden gave the two sides the weekend to provide additional information about their arguments. The court will reconvene Monday at 10 a.m. for a ruling.

Yeah, this is going to give Comey absolutely no time to respond, should the ruling come out against him (meaning… Comey has to testify)”.

That’s a big short-term part of what keeps Neon going (until late Monday…LOL).

But there’s A LOT more in his article from HW’s “past” as this screenshot says

“When Truman asked Stalin in 1945 whether Hitler was dead, Stalin bluntly replied, “No”. As late as 1952 Eisenhower declared, “We have been unable to unearth one bit of tangible evidence of Hitler’s death.” What really happened?”

And THIS Neon storyline (with clues from Q) suggest (see the bottom of the above link where young pilot has his leather flight helmet and goggles on):

Skorzeny alleges that George Herbet Walker Bush was/as an SS NAZI spy, as was he.

“Allegedly”, George H. W. Bush was born in Germany as George H Sherff, Jr., the son of Nikola Tesla’s German-born, illegal immigrant accountant GeorgeH Sherff, Sr. George Sr, had been robbing Tesla blind for years a& giving Tesla’s secret inventions directly to Adolph Hitler. In 1938, Hitler sent 14 year old George H Sherff Jr to America to try to befriend, spy on & kill the Great American inventor Dr Nikola Tesla.”
Bro: Hey, this is NOT my story. It is Neon’s, clued by Q.

HOWEVER, may I add?:

Now, with Donald’s uncle reportedly having a great deal to do with Tesla and his papers, you gotta admit, there are NOT too many stories with a plot THIS thick!

And you know what they say about the viscosity of blut versus wasser!

And finally, the esoteric masonic mumbo jumbo meaning to top off ….HW’s Grave of Buried Points of Light by heaping some more well deserved dirt on top:

Just to think, If I had never visited the Cafe, I’d never have the slightest idea who Q was. :) And even now, I’d have no idea what the heck he says whereever the heck he says it if I still would just learn not to press that Cafe button. — sigh—

The weird thing is that no-one else has the slightest idea either, particularly those promoting him and his cryptic vagueness so desperately.
I heard the phenomenon described as ‘hope-porn’ which made me laugh. I guess we’ll be seeing a lot more of that as the prospect of actual hope diminishes and we’re all corralled via the internet behemoths into our personally acceptable bubbles of correct thought.

Cult thinking 101, exploit the desperate, as Jim Jones and every other con-artist figures out with their mother’s milk. The more things change and all that.

Q is hope porn for the Right, those who see our salvation delivered by valiant military and intelligence officers loyal to the Republic. Assange is hope porn for the Left, those who look to technology and the free flow of information to do the same.

What about the material (Sherff) instead of your “It’s not …ME….can’t be relevant…can’t be good.” reaction.

What about some other method worth infinitely more than that smug cynicism???

Debunk Neon and possibly Q from the above?

Easy!!

Just think of or mention the idea that if there are American elementary school yearbooks in existence of pre-14 year old George pre-Andover, Skorzeny and Neon and Q (if Neon got it there) are ALL full of shit.

On that, at least.

But what if there are ones in Germany instead??? Of age 11,12 or 13?

Might that be about a billion times more significant than the above smugness exhibited here???…in its vast implications???

Or if Otto, Neon and Q are a psy-op 73 years old on Georgie Porgie and Everything Nasty you don’t want to consider…..is the import of that possibly of more weight than all egos in the room put together??

Neon in the haste and chaos of all this HAS made a mistake or two before which I am fairly sure IS a mistake.

Yet I don’t toss everything he digs up out because I also know some important parts of it to be valid. Far more valid in fact than these reactions…….if on no other terms but method ….which is actually quite rigorous at times ….compared to these brilliant (sic) “opinions”.

No it’s about the iranians that he routinely denigrates and quite litterarly said he wants to starve.

Its about yemenis he has being murdering torturing starving for the past 4 years

Its about the syrians that he bombed and gazed and tortured and about saving the white helmets and the scum of the earth that made the life of syrians a living hell

Its about the 70 year old suffering of palestinians that he wants to annihilate.

Its about the suffering and starving of Venezuelans and attempting to assasinated their elected president.

This is amazing. I am speechless do you think that cleaning up your gov of lobbyist and foreign agents is worth the death of millions, the suffering and annihilation of entire innocent nations?!?
Do you even listen to yourselves?! How arrogant can you get?

‘Smug dullard’…I quite like that epithet, and its a new one for me amongst the many things I have been called in my time. Its funny too, coming from Bro who is never short of an ad hominem in defence of whatever hype he is currently promoting as our only hope of salvation this week.

I dedicated this sunday on music. In particular, I like live music. It can be spectacular, but over the years I noticed that music -a language that we all understand- is at its most beautiful when it’s uncomplicated.

Many concerts I have visited, but today I want to remember something beautiful I’ve stumbled upon on a festival years ago – the Scottish band Snow Patrol. If you have the chance to visit them, don’t hesitate.

Let me share with you the song ‘Run’. It’s about saying goodbye, something that we don’t like, but it’s a fact of life.
Moreover, imagine that you are a musician. You have written a song with lyrics, start playing it in front of a crowd of some 100000 people, and they sing the song massively back to you. Meet the fans in Ireland:

Lovely Rob. Sundays are our music catch up day as well. Started this day with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5yl0cbLWVI
Prokofiev “War” Sonata #7 Valentina Lisitsa 1st mov. Allegro Inquieto
But that is not everybody’s cup of lapsang souchong of course.

I have one too, like yours … John Mayer Rock in Rio 2013 – same feeling – crazy crowd! If you don’t like him, forward to the last number … Gravity! I have loved this forever …

And then there is a little hopefulness in some places. The new Mexican president is known as an honest fellow. He is not so much a leftist as they describe him, but more of a democratic socialist. He will lead by referendums and will consult Mexicans at every step of the way. He opened the Presidential House and did not move in, but opened it as a House of the people. Lots of things this man has done but yesterday he was inaugurated twice .. Once by the indigenous, who did a cleansing ceremony, reminded him of his responsibility to the people, and gave him a wooden ‘leadership baton’.

… I know what you mean. People are demanding sanity …
Some folk think I am ungrateful toward Pravda …
well let’s have a quick look … was put in the science mysteries section …
Oh Yeah … I really needed to be in the Mysteries section …
like out of the Twilight Zone … dur duh dur duh … dur duh dur duh …
DUH !
(I am trying to laugh … need a good joke right now)

How does one make note of the death of a man who just happened to be in Dallas in 1963. And then just happened to become head of the CIA and just happened to be President of the USA when the first of a long stream of continual wars began in the Mid East against Islamic peoples?

“While we should, without any restraints, condemn and fight all forms of anti-Semitism, we should nonetheless add some other observations to the results of the poll.

First, it would be interesting to learn how the percentage of those with a negative stance towards Jews compares to the percentage of those with a negative stance towards Muslims and Blacks – just to make sure that we don’t find some racism unacceptable and another racism normal.

Second, one should raise here the paradox of Zionist anti-Semitism: quite many European (and American) anti-Semites just don’t want too many Jews in their own country but they fully support the expansion of Israel onto the West Bank. So, how do we count them?

This brings us to the key question: how do we measure anti-Semitism? Where does the legitimate criticism of Israeli politics in the West Bank end and anti-Semitism begin? Let’s explain this through some further observations.

One of the best indications of the gradual disappearance of the sense of irony in our public space was the repetition of a certain metaphor about the negotiations between the state of Israel and Palestinians. About a decade ago, when some kind of peace talks were still going on, the Palestinian negotiator noted how while Israel was negotiating how to divide the West Bank, it was gradually building more and more settlements there.

He compared dealing with Israelis to two guys at a table negotiating how to split the pizza between them. But while their debate goes on and on, one of the guys is all the time eating parts of the pizza.

In a recent documentary report about the West Bank, a settler mentions the same anecdote, but with no sad irony, just with a brutal satisfaction: “Our negotiations with Palestinians are like debating about how to cut a pizza while we are all the time eating slices of it,” accompanied by a mischievous smile.

There is something truly disturbing in the way the TV documentary from which we quoted the remark on eating pizza presents the West Bank settlements. We learn that, for the majority of the new settlers, what brought them to move there was not a Zionist dream but a simple wish to live in a nice and clean habitat close to a big city (Jerusalem, in this case).

They describe their life there as much better than living in a suburb of Los Angeles: green surroundings, clean air, cheap water and electricity, with a large city easily accessible by special highways. Plus all the local infrastructure (schools, shopping centers, etc.) but cheaper than in the US, built and sustained by Israeli state support.

As for the Palestinian cities and villages which surround them, they are basically invisible, present in two main forms: cheap labor building the settlements with occasional acts of violence treated as a nuisance.

In short, the majority of settlers live in invisible bubbles, isolated from their surroundings outside and behaving as if what goes on outside their bubbles belongs to another world that doesn’t really concern them.

The dream that underlies this politics is best rendered by the wall that separates a settler’s town from the Palestinian town on a nearby hill somewhere in the West Bank. The Israeli side of the wall is painted with the image of the countryside beyond the wall – but without the Palestinian town, depicting just nature, grass, trees… is this not ethnic cleansing at its purest, imagining the outside beyond the wall as it should be, empty, virginal and waiting to be settled?

So should we doubt that Israel sincerely wants peace in the Middle East? Of course it does. Because colonizers and occupiers in general always want peace, after they’ve got what they wanted, because peace means they can enjoy what they grabbed.

No doubt after Germany occupied most of Europe in 1941, it also sincerely wanted peace (and ruthlessly fought all resistance as terrorists). In fact, as for the use of the term “colonization,” one should recall that the early Zionists themselves used it to designate their endeavor a century ago.

Now we should return to our starting point: if anyone who just read these lines considers them anti-Semitic, then, I think, he or she is not only totally wrong but also posing a threat to what is most valuable in the Jewish tradition.”

Step 1… make a whole lot of noise about a big fight. (remember, he used to host professional wrestling in his Atlantic City casino)

Step 2 … confidently predict victory during the lead up to the big meeting/summit.

Step 3… completely surrender everything he wanted in order to reach agreement at the summit.

This is what he just did in the big meeting with Xi over US-China trade at the G-20. The only concrete thing at the summit was that Trump cancelled his planned tariff hikes. He did this in exchange for ‘negotiations’. Like the North Korea summit, he hypes these negotiations in the hope that no one notices among all the noise and bluster that he’s just tapped-out and given the important stuff away to avoid a negative summit with no agreement.

Trump had to do this, because the only thing holding the stock market up this week has been Trump’s pronouncements of a great deal coming with China. If he’d walked out with a no-deal meeting, the markets would have crashed on Monday.

Meanwhile, we get more negotiations where Trump sends in the clowns and demands the Chinese surrender. The Chinese say no. Trump then puts out a new tweet about the great progress being made. No deadline on this deal, so there is no increase in more tariffs which the stock markets would hate no matter how many useless negotiation meetings are held.

The Donald is a New Yorker – his does he explain the contradiction between his official stance on climate change and the actions taken by the (apparently well-administered) New Jersey/ New York Port Authority to address climate concerns?

“In 2001, the Port Authority authorized a total of $60 million each for the states of New Jersey and New York to preserve open space throughout the Hudson-Raritan Estuary – the Hudson-Raritan Estuary Resources Program (HRERP).” According to the map on the site, the PA arranged for the purchase of land along both shores of the Lower Hudson River, leading to the Atlantic Ocean. Choice real estate – a payoff perhaps?

And then the PA helped fund a plan. The Hudson-Raritan Estuary Comprehensive Restoration Plan “is the product of a multi-year effort by contributors from throughout the New York-New Jersey region, including scientists, technical experts, and stakeholders, to provide a science based consensus vision, master plan and strategy for ecosystem restoration in the New York and New Jersey harbour.” The plan is being implemented.

Thanks for the link, Phil. I know that many others post equally compelling links, at times, which suggest a different conclusion. What to believe? I can’t think of a convincing reason for the NJ/NY Port Authority to embrace climate change adaptations, other than because they believe it’s necessary. (Maybe Cousin Vinny got into the electric vehicle business? Jokes aside, the PA seems much too sophisticated for that.)

I saw an interview with Col. Larry Wilkerson where he said that the US Military believes in climate change and is taking steps to protect its air base in Virginia, if memory serves. He didn’t have a clear definitive view on climate change himself.

What does it take to trigger and maintain an ice age? I suggest cold land surrounded by, or surrounding, open water. Consider Antarctica and Greenland. In terms of total precipitation, snow and rain, the Arctic is a desert. An open Arctic ocean should vastly increase atmospheric moisture in the region, and result in greater precipitation on the surrounding land masses. If snow accumulates faster than it sublimes or melts in the short Arctic summers, then “voila!” At least until the ocean freezes over again.

Fake. The climate nonsense is a thief, that shifts are mental coin for lead. . .

What do we know about it, really? I suggest we really, collectively, know, and comprehend, nearly, and probably completely, nothing! Global Warming, Mini Ice-Age, Climate Change, and least and last, Climate Control; these particular ideas and subjects, surpass, by unfathomable orders of magnitude, any and all knowledge that any one person will actually possess on Our Earth! — unless that person is a Moses and Noah, shipped in one boat — this, even despite, certain applicable intellectual gifts, and converscance in the many myriad of related disciplines. Too harsh? No, not really. But, rather, all the more realistic. And, to express an opinion, especially a convinced opinion, on any one of these subjects, in absolute terms, is, more or less, absurdity. It would be possible now to highlight the depth of ignorance of my own self, by listing from memory every tittle and iota of earth-science lingo-lango, presently on deck. But why bother? Consider for your own self, what you know, really know, like: night and day, light and dark, sound and quiet, hot and cold, life and death. These Are! all climate subjects . . . but only, the very beginning, the pre-thought, and the surface isn’t even noticed, let alone scratched. What does climate do, where does it go, what is it; what does it not do, and where not go, and what is it not?
I see seven basic tangible criteria for climate: a bound, a shield, a cushion or blanket, conducive medium, interactive medium, conductive medium, insulative medium. Each generic grouping contains hundreds or thousands of known sub-subjects, either interrelated or vastly dissimilar.
I see two intangible aspects of climate: medium of time, medium of knowledge. These two groups overlap entirely the previous seven, but surpass, as well, into the intangible aspect. As an example, time is reckoned as linear, which is important, obviously; but, time in a climate sense is somewhat more circular, and repeating in nature; season follows season, and various astronomic calendars and “clocks” are based on repetitive, cyclical patterns. Our knowledge, and comprehension of climate, and of time, are closely interdependent. These cyclical patterns have been termed, in a certain time theory, as decaying and overlapping loops, like a whirlpool; but, take for one moment, a thought as to the very many known, and also unknown over-under-woven time-loops, influencing this, our climate: Earths orbit, and spin and wobble, etc.; the Moon and Sun and lesser bodies; cosmic rays and solar winds; magnetic and electromagnetic effects; oceanic currents; geochronology, geological upheavals; glacier ice-age cycles; chronobiology; astrochronology, and more. Chronobiology alone, is a subject of too many twists and turns, and lumped up sub-specialties, to properly articulate; but would include such aspects as the deforestation of Ancient Greece, etc., as well as carbon nitrogen cycles, and many other earth science, biological science, and social science subjects.
By the climate we live, grow, learn, are kept warm, protected, speak, hear, and comprehend life.

So after swallowing hard, and taking a good long pause, I registered with JOC.com. (“Who’s asking?” …) Anyway, now I’m receiving email updates which are enlightening and would be even more enlightening if I knew the first thing about shipping.

First of all, this delay in tariffs on China is causing an early 2019 China import rush. Because the Chinese take 2 or 3 weeks off for Chinese New Year, not Christmas. So they ship early to accommodate that break, and now they’re shipping even more early. Also, the tariffs were dropped as spot dates dipped for the second week in a row… what’s a spot rate? I think it’s the price per TEU on shipping, which I don’t understand except it seems that the shippers are making a lot of money from this US/China spat. Anyone know something about shipping?

Also, on Dec.11-12, (right after that Climate conference in Poland?) there is the Port Performance North America conference in Newark, NJ. Here’s what’s on the agenda:

5 Reasons why this is a Must Attend conference:
1) Gain an overview of North America’s port network
Larger ships are calling ports throughout North America, with implications spanning ship and truck turn times, yard congestion, and rail performance. This conference will provide attendees with an overview of hotspots and how ports are working to avoid cargo bottlenecks.

2) Dive into port technology
With larger ships and limited footprints to expand, North American ports must create more capacity by working smarter. Terminal operators are turning increasingly to technology to reap these efficiency gains, whether geofencing terminals to track truck turn times, or creating portwide technology portals to make life easier for shippers. Learn about the latest technology terminal operators and shipper lines are employing to boost productivity.

3) Unravel the chassis conundrum
Chassis availability is a problem challenging shippers, terminals, and truckers from coast to coast, and this conference will explore the operational and technological efforts that ports and other stakeholders in the supply chain are taking to alleviate this critical pain point in the supply chain.

4) Learn what labor peace could mean for port productivity
With labor peace assured until 2022 on the West Coast and until 2024 on the East and Gulf coasts following contract extensions by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the International Longshoremen’s Association, the conference will look at if those agreements will lead to productivity gains on the docks.

5) Hear from the FMC on detention and demurrage findings
FMC Commissioner Rebecca Dye and private-sector members on the FMC’s advisory group will discuss the agency’s multi-year investigation into detention and demurrage practices that cost BCOs and truckers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Another little nugget from the New Jersey / New York Port Authority web site concerning Diamondback Terrapins (which are turtles for those like me who haven’t heard of them.) During their great annual migration, the nesting turtles unfortunately end up on a runway at JFK airport.

Wildlife specialists from the PA and the USDA have been rounding up the turtles by hand from the airport for years. The turtles are measured, their shells are marked, and they are electronically IDed before being released in safer areas. In 2013, the PA erected some plastic barriers, reducing the number of turtles on the runway by 60 percent.

“A Syrian military source reported that the US-led coalition fired several missiles at Syrian positions and caused limited materiel damage, Syrian SANA news agency reported. The missiles hit the positions south of Al-Sukhnah in eastern Syria, the source told the agency.

“Forces of the US-led coalition fired several missiles toward the positions of our units in the area of Al-Ghurab mount, to the south of the city of Al-Sukhnah at around 8:00 p.m. [18:00 GMT],” the source told the Al-Ikhbariya television channel.

Previous month, Syrian state television reported that over 30 civilians had been killed as a result of a US-led coalition airstrike on a village in the Deir ez-Zor province, which came just two days after Syrian media accused the US-led coalition of killing at least 6 civilians in the town of Hajin in the same area.

Syrian government has repeatedly accused the US-led coalition of causing civilian casualties while conducting aerial operations in Syria.”

Now we know another reason israel’s boy toy trump chickened out on meeting Putin recently.

The recent actions by the zionazi-gays indicate they are continuing to intensify their aggression.

“The US-led coalition says it targeted a top Islamic State terrorist commander, who was involved in the beheading of a US officer and posed an “imminent threat.” Local media, however, claim the airstrike hit Syrian army positions.

While the US-led forces insist their pinpoint strikes targeted only the cell involved in the beheading of former US Army Ranger and aid worker Peter Kassig in November 2014, local media claim the strike actually “supported” terrorists instead.

The coalition fired “several missiles” targeting the Syrian Arab Army’s positions in the eastern Homs countryside south of al-Sekhneh, allegedly causing some “material damage,” but no deaths or injuries, SANA news reports.

The US and coalition presence on its soil is an act of aggression and a violation of the country’s sovereignty, Damascus has repeatedly asserted, raising the issue with the United Nations, with the international community remaining deaf to the Syrian government’s pleas.

Damascus believes that, besides directly supporting terrorist organizations with such presumably accidental strikes on Syrian forces, the American presence further discourages those armed militants who, following the virtual defeat of Islamic State may now be considered ‘moderate,’ from engaging in any constructive talks with the government.”

Just as trump lied about his intentions regarding Syria during his prez campaign, his underlings continue to lie about their actions and role in Syria.

“Russians have greatly changed their opinion of US President Donald Trump over the past year, with nearly a half of them now thinking negatively of him, Russian sociologists have found.

According to the latest research conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), 46 percent of Russian citizens have expressed a negative opinion of the US leader. The findings are based on interviews with 1,500 Russian citizens, conducted across the country late in November.

The fresh figures record nearly a twofold growth compared to the FOM’s poll conducted last June, when only 25 percent of respondents viewed Trump negatively. 13 percent of the respondents have expressed a positive opinion of the US leader, while 41 percent were indifferent. Favorable views of Trump among Russians tanked twofold as well; last year 24 percent of Russians thought well of him.

The general attitude to the US as a whole has gone downward as well over the past year, the FOM study indicates. Only 11 percent of respondents viewed the country in a positive light, while a half of them are indifferent. Nearly 70 percent of Russians believe that, overall, the US plays a bad role in the modern world, while only seven percent think the opposite.

The results of the poll are hardly surprising, given the rocky relationship between the two countries – and the impressive amount of anti-Russian sanctions Washington produced under the Trump administration.”

Socialism. America is a socialist empire. When exactly this first began in earnest, say 1953, or even somewhat earlier, is hard to say, since the West has been the carrier and incubator of primeval revolution for far more than a millenia now; but regardless, of the multiple, and rather acute, first symptoms, of endemic infection, the revolution has now credibly been in full-swing since 2001; ever since the unfolding of the mythologized spectacle of the Nine-Eleven Neocon Revolution; and, in case you missed it, the Revolution “was” televised! — and, convincingly represented, as the most important thing in the Universe. The socialist universe, that is, properly speaking.
How sorry, and weakly ineffectual, those Soviets were, is now becoming plainly evident: they couldn’t completely eradicate religious thirst, with even the most advanced dialectics (even with nine-grams); yet, we have now made all known (and that great unknown one too, of course) religions into a towering personal ego-temple of self-worship, without any dialectics at all!, simply astounding.
Lack of material comforts (and other unnameables) compelled those earlier primitive pioneers, to cling (albeit haphazardly) with earthly futility, to that last bastion of bourgeoisie fake-sanity: family, and sound moral grounding. Oh, what dolts! In one fell swoop, not just family, but even the very archaic construct of Mankind itself, as a real thing, is now fully abated, and ablated into thin air, by the truer belief of — LGBT. And, again, dialectics are proven useless. Man, in and of himself, ceases to exist; and stands (euphemism) evolved into a type of animated amusement.
Motherland, Fatherland, more useless rot. What need have LGBT’s of mother or father? None! The state, the masters, give, and the masters take away (when we deserve it — and you will agree, at least, until it’s your turn).
Property to the state, and for the state? Again, trivia worth forgetting. Now we belong to the very devil himself. And boast in all candor, that it is so.

“That’s why delusions are only diagnosed if they’re not consistent with the person’s existing belief system and views. A devout creationist talks to God while in church, that’s fine. An avowedly atheist lawyer starts doing it in the middle of a meeting, they’re probably delusional. If both of them suddenly started saying the world is going to end in 30 minutes because of angry frogs living in the sun, they’d both be considered delusional.

Unless that’s mentioned in the Bible somewhere? I admit I haven’t read it in a while.”

“In a poll by the independent Levada Centre, 39% of Russians listed Putin as a politician they trust. That is a 20% decrease from November 2017, when Putin was named by 59% of Russians, according to the same polling agency.

The Levada polls are the latest to show a strong backlash as the Kremlin pushes unpopular social reforms to relieve pressure on the budget. This month, 45% of Russians told FOM (Public Opinion Foundation), a polling agency close to the Kremlin, they would vote for Putin if elections were held this Sunday. That rating was down from 67% at the beginning of the year.”

Well, during the next all Russia news conference, Putin would be advised to explain the pension age change and why he had to go back on a campaign promise ( you cheated, you lied, you said that you loved me). Also, it would be well if he began to step into a more inspirational role which is what he would be able to do more easily as a senior statesman. Trump may play a Kingly role ( “le Roi Soleil, soi moi, Off with his head!) but Putin is the planet’s Priest(” offer this up for the future.”..or “to each according to his ability to each according to his need’)

“The incident happened in the skies over the Baltic Sea, when the United Kingdom flew weekly missions out over the waters toward Soviet bases in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Kaliningrad, according to an article on the Swedish Forces website.

The missions followed a loop across the length of the Baltic States, then back around and in between the Swedish mainland and the island of Gotland.

Swedish pilots in Viggen fighter jets at that time regularly trained to intercept the SR-71 as a practice drill. However, one Blackbird flight, piloted by Lt. Cols. Duane Noll and Tom Veltri, experienced engine trouble, losing power in one of the enormous 15-foot turbofans.

The plane went off course and entered Swedish airspace over Gotland, descending more than ten miles to an altitude of 25,000 feet, at which point the stricken SR-71 received an escort from two Swedish Air Force pilots who were prepared to defend the fabled spy-plane from possible interception by Soviet fighter jets.”

LOL. Like the Russians would fly over to sweden and shoot down an american aircraft there.

This is the sort of nonsense that happens when one relies upon gays to invent one’s psywar bs.

“Putin found the story line of Donovan Marsh’s ‘Hunter Killer’ blockbuster a “highly unlikely” scenario, to say the least, when, at the end of G20 press conference, he was suddenly asked what he thinks about the plot where an American Virginia-class submarine docks at a Russian Arctic base after rescuing a Russian President from captivity, preventing a military coup and averting World War III.

“We had two small US boats donated to Ukraine, which could not pass the Kerch Strait. And you want a nuclear sub to enter our base?”

“This is a highly unlikely scenario. Surreal!,” he added with a smile.”

Can someone please give me a CREDIBLE explanation as to why Putin is doing the bro-shake and laughing it up with the Wahhabi patron of jihadi mercenaries in Syria aka MbinSawman? Can you also explain why Trump is going around bragging that Putin is meeting with Netanyahoo on Syria and is going to help with Israel’s security? Methinks Putin sold out to the Dark Side, methinks the Zionists’ agent, Trump, was charged with reeling Putin in and he’s succeeding.

Putin ‘Mickelsoned’ every one at the G20, Trump included. Power move was how I see it. The Mickelson/Woods rivalry is legend. At one major event Tom Brady (the Quarterback) was Woods’ caddy. The night before, Mickelson had dinner with Brady. Just as the tourny was about to begin, and within ear shot of Tiger, Mickelson says to Brady, ‘great dinner last night, lets do that again’. Tiger lost. As they say out here in the ‘west’ Putin ‘punked’ the entire G20. Especially ‘donald lame duck, can’t make your own decissions, lead around by the zionose, Trump’.

One possibility is that they, Russia and Saudi, will collude to reduce the oil output and thereby raise the price to stick it primarily to the USA. This may be effected in gradual stealth mode rather than a grand announcement.
Saudi needs $80 oil; Russia does not.

There are numerous alternatives to plastic packaging and utensil products …
and many are cheaper …

L’Oréal was recognized at this year’s Awards for Packaging Innovation for its Seed Phytonutrients shower-friendly paper bottle made from 100 per cent recycled post-consumer paper. The inner plastic bottle is also made from 100 per cent post-consumer recycled plastic with 60 per cent less plastic than a comparable sized rigid container. L’Oréal partnered with Ecologic to create the bottle.
United Kingdom startup Skipping Rocks Lab came up with Ooho, an edible packaging for liquids made from seaweed extract. The startup says the sustainable packaging degrades in a natural environment in six weeks on average and the proprietary material is cheaper than plastic. The company has won a number of awards including the 2016 UK Energy Globe Award.
NatureFlex is a range of bio-films developed by Futamura and based on wood pulp from managed plantations. The films use novel heat seal resins on each side and are suitable for industrial and home composting.
French company Lactips has developed a patented thermoplastic packaging from casein, the protein found in milk. The plastic, made from milk that is unfit for human consumption, is used for laundry pellets but the company wants to expand into the food industry. It is water soluble and biodegradable.
… and much more about this at …http://www.hakahakionline.com/en/6554/back-to-the-future-as-innovators-seek-plastic-alternatives/

“Omar Abdulaziz has filed a lawsuit against the NSO Group in Israel, where the cyber firm is headquartered, the New York Times reported Monday. Abdulaziz alleges that Israeli software was used to hack his phone.

The dissident charged that the same people who are accused of slaying Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, were contacting him and pushing him to return to Saudi Arabia. He kept recorded tapes of some of those conversations. According to court papers, Abdulaziz then received a text message that ostensibly contained a link to track a parcel. Little did Abdulaziz know, the report said, that the link disguised NSO Group’s spyware.

Citizen Lab, a Canadian internet watchdog, wound up informing Abdulaziz that his phone had been monitored. The lawsuit said that after his phone suffered an infection from Israeli spyware, the Saudi government gained access to communications between Abdulaziz and Khashoggi that “contributed in a significant manner to the decision to murder Khashoggi,” as quoted by Times of Israel.

After his phone was hacked, Saudi operatives stormed the home of Abdulaziz’s family in Jeddah and detained two of his brothers, according to Times of Israel. They remain in the custody of Saudi security services.

Last month, former US National Security Administration contractor Edward Snowden weighed in on the role of the NSO Group in Khashoggi’s killing during a speech to an audience in Israel.

“How did they know what his intentions were? How did they decide he was someone they needed to act against that he was worth the risk?” Snowden asked.

“The reality was they had bugged one of his friends and contacts using software created by an Israeli company. We don’t know the chain of consequence, because this company will never comment on this, but it’s one of the major stories not being written about,” the whistleblower said.”

The lower house of the Russian parliament (Duma) has passed the pension reform, which will raise the retirement age for men and women by five years, in a final reading on Thursday, September 27, in a slightly amended version. The passing of the reform, the most unpopular measure of the Russian government in decades, sets the stage for a sharp escalation of social and political conflicts in Russia.

A second reading of the bill, introduced for the first time in mid-June during the opening of the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia, took place on Wednesday, September 26. Over 300 amendments had been submitted to the Duma before the second reading, including nine by President Vladimir Putin, who had endorsed the pension reform in late August (see also: “Putin backs widely hated Russian pension reform”). The amendments by Putin were endorsed by all deputies unanimously.

The amended bill provides for a raising of the retirement age for men from 60 to 65 years and for women from 55 to 60 years. Starting in 2019, the retirement age will be raised gradually, to reach 65 years for men by 2028 and 60 years for women by 2034.

Following a phony debate, which gave opposition deputies from the Stalinist KPRF, the nationalist Just Russia and the fascistic LDPR, the chance to pose as opponents of the reform, the bill was passed in an amended version with 72.4 percent of the Duma (326 deputies) voting for it. All opposition deputies present (59) voted against the bill, without endangering its passage.

On Thursday, a third and final reading of the bill resulted in its adoption with 332 deputies voting for, and 83 against it. Before the bill takes effect, it will have to be reviewed by the upper house of the Russian Duma on October 2-3, which is widely expected to approve it.

The pension reform is being rammed through in the face of mass opposition with polls indicating that between 85 and 92 percent of the population oppose it. The raising of the retirement age is rightly perceived by the vast majority of the working population as a blatant act of systematized state theft of funds that working Russians have been paying into all their lives.

The state will effectively steal 1 million rubles (US$16,000) from every working woman and 1.5 million rubles (US$24,000) from every working man as a result of the reform. In a country where the average salary is 35,900 rubles ($567) per month, and even less for millions of workers, these are very significant sums.

Following the catastrophic socioeconomic collapse of the 1990s during capitalist restoration, life expectancy in Russia is still significantly lower than in most advanced countries. Over a third of Russian men will not live long enough to receive their pensions at 65 (see also: “Outrage in Russia over pension reform”).

Low pensions are already a source of social and political outrage and disgust. The average pension of 13,300 rubles ($210) a month barely puts pensioners above the official poverty line. Over a third of Russian pensioners are forced to work to make ends meet.

In a case that is symptomatic of the conditions facing pensioners and workers throughout the country, local news recently reported that thousands of pensioners in Krasnoyarsk, a major industrial city in Siberia, depend on buying groceries beyond their expiration date on a street market because they were not able to buy food in grocery stores on their miserable pensions. According to a local news station, hundreds of pensioners go to the small market every day to buy spoiled milk for 10 rubles (15 cents), or sausages for 70 rubles ($1,06).

One elderly woman who is forced to buy her food on the market said that this was the only way for her to feed herself on a pension of 12,000 rubles ($183) a month. “I would ask all major supermarkets [in the area] to somehow organize [the selling] of this kind of groceries that are beyond their expiration date but still entirely eatable for poor devils like myself. And there are many of us. We cannot cope with this life.” Since the news broke about this, a charity organization has started an online collection of expired food items to send to pensioners.

In Russia, more so than in Western Europe or North America, many pensioners live with their children and grandchildren. Millions of families depend on pension payments to add to their meager salaries. Retired family members are often key to enabling both parents or single parents to work one or more jobs to maintain the family, by taking care of the small children. The raising of the retirement age for women in particular will thus place significant financial and logistical burdens on what is already a deeply impoverished working class.

The argument advanced by the defenders of the reform, including Vladimir Putin, that it is necessary to maintain the pension system and raise pensions, is recognized as a transparent lie. Putin speaks for a super-rich oligarchy whose wealth is based on the ruthless plunder of the working class and raw material resources. It is in their hands that the resources necessary to meet the needs of society, including pensions and salaries on which workers can actually live, are concentrated. They include billionaires like Alisher Usmanov with $12.3 billion, Viktor Vekselberg, who is worth over $13 billion, Vladimir Potanin ($14.8 billion), Alexei Mordashov ($18.4 billion) and Leonid Mikhelson (over $20 billion).

The recklessness with which the Russian oligarchy has pushed through this reform within just a few months mirrors the ever-more aggressive moves by the bourgeoisie internationally against the working class, such as the massive tax breaks for the super-rich of the Trump administration and the escalation of social austerity in France under Macron.

It is thus no coincidence that the pension reform is widely supported by governments internationally and has indeed been pushed for over more than a decade by the World Bank and imperialist think tanks. In its present form, the reform has been developed above all by Alexei Kudrin, the former finance minister of Russia and a close ally of Putin, who is regarded as one of the figures in Russian politics with the best connections to Western imperialist governments and business circles.

The mass outrage over this frontal assault on workers’ living standards finds no expression in the existing political system. The protests against the pension reform that were organized by an alliance of right-wing parties, ranging from the Stalinist KPRF and other pseudo-left formations, to Alexei Navalny, a nationalist stooge of US imperialism, and the fascistic LDPR, have drawn only very limited numbers of a few thousand people or less and have eventually all but petered out. As the WSWS warned early on, the aim of these protests was, from the very beginning, to strangle mass opposition by steering it into right-wing, nationalist channels, and thus enable the Kremlin to push through the pension reform.

In contrast to the promotion of nationalism by all bourgeois and petty-bourgeois parties in Russia, the opposition to the pension reform has to be oriented toward linking up the emerging struggles of Russian workers with the struggles of workers throughout Europe and the United States. It has to become part of a socialist counteroffensive by the international working class

“The mass outrage over this frontal assault on workers’ living standards finds no expression in the existing political system. The protests against the pension reform that were organized by an alliance of right-wing parties, ranging from the Stalinist KPRF and other pseudo-left formations, to Alexei Navalny, a nationalist stooge of US imperialism, and the fascistic LDPR, have drawn only very limited numbers of a few thousand people or less and have eventually all but petered out.”
… look what is happening now in France and Belgium …

What we need is another Russian revolution, everywhere, to kick their butts (including scumbag VVP).

Having said that, as turkey’s, we will probably be read the Riot Act instead https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-14529243, then be faced with another contrived major global drama to divert attention and go back to imagining the turkey masters are playing 20D chess rather than, just about, keeping us alive until Xmas.

… LOL … oh that is funny … well, you know what I mean. I just read some mainstream news that aliens could already be among us ! I’ve told quite a few Russian jokes today that made people laugh so much I had to repeat them when other people turned up.
Our local government now has a ((( corporate partner ))) who has taken a monetary interest in our City’s water supply. Our water allocation has been halved so that everyone with a garden is going to be hit very hard. Water-rates were included with rates, but now water will be billed separately and be a thousand dollars plus per year for some.
In my view, people who take the time and trouble to upkeep beautiful gardens should be rewarded.
I am consulting with fellow socialists and decent people on how to eradicate this draconian repulsive … (must stay calm … take a few deep breaths … there, there now … my poor old goy blood boiled just then) … you know what I mean. We all just want a fair go … just a fair go.
People sublimate serious issues with many strategies, but there comes a time … as we are seeing now in France and Belgium … people have been pushed too far … much too far and the system does need major change for the people. If the leaders now sit down and compromise the bs is going to continue and get worse. Where we are at I am not sure … but interesting dramatic times ahead for sure.

… and in six months time, what then.
… and it’s a Belgium issue now.
Looks like the beginning of a revolution to me …
but must first know the ideology of the protest leaders.
(is it soros ? if yes, then what does he want?)
Interesting.

its in the Nederlands too now, I heard, and so far, way too amorphous and incoherent to pin it down to any particular ideology or colour revolutionary puppet-master.

Which is good, as a spontaneous response from amongst those bearing the brunt of all these repressive measures is a far better and lasting indicator at this stage than anything organised (with no matter which well argued intent) could possibly be.

Who has seen the wind, or the waning moon and the bright morning star like an orb in the sky, I confess I did, this morning before dawn. This is from the poet and scientist Mikhail Lomonosov, from Russia with love :

“An Evening Meditation on the Divine Majesty on the Occasion of the Great Northern Lights”

The day conceals its countenance,
Dark night has covered over fields;
Black shade has climbed the mountains’ heights;
The sun’s rays have inclined from us;
A star-filled vault has opened up;
No number is there to the stars,
No bottom is there to the vault.

A grain of sand in waves of sea,
A small spark in eternal ice,
A light dust in a roaring wind,
A feather in a raging fire
Am I, engulfed in this abyss,
As worn by thought, I lose my way.

The mouths of sages do proclaim
A multitude of worlds are there;
Innumerable suns burn bright;
And people live and die as we;
And to God’s glory evermore,
There nature has an equal force.

But where, O Nature, is your law?
The dawn comes up from northern lands!
Does not the sun set there its throne?
Do icy seas not stir the fire?
We have been cloaked by a cold flame!
At night day came upon the earth!

O You, whose swift gaze penetrates
The volume of eternal laws,
To whom the small sign of a thing
Reveals a principle of life:
To you the planets’ course is known,
What is it so disturbs us, tell?

At night what vibrates lucid rays?
What subtle flame cuts firmament?
And without stormy thunderclouds
Wherefrom does lightning rush to earth?
How can it be that frozen steam
In midst of winter brings forth fire?

There quarrel water and dense fog,
Or glimmer rays from out the sun
Inclining to us through thick air.
Or tops of fertile mountains burn;
Or zephyrs cease to blow the sea,
And tranquil waves the ether beat.

Your answer is replete with doubts
About the places nearest man.
Pray tell us, how vast is the world?
What lies beyond the smallest stars?
Is creatures’ end unknown to You?
Pray tell how great is God Himself?

Duran has an article on the same subject:http://theduran.com/frances-meltdown-macrons-disdain/
” … The “yellow jackets” [protestors] now have the support of 77% of the French population. They are demanding Macron’s resignation and an immediate change of government. …”

It seems, that this movement is gaining momentum, there is an increasing number of voices from Greece, including one general, calling for the national movement (non party citizen movement) to save the country, as well as remove any legal immunity from parliamentarians for treasonous behavior.
Accordingly to one, long discussion at Trangas’ show one of the politicians, who’s name I will not mention said and I loosely quote: “He had to sign some (we know which ones) agreements, because “Matrix” threatened his family, to throw him in a slummer (obviously they had a lot of dirt on him) and confiscate all his possessions”. I really do not feel sorry for him.
I just read that Italy is caving in already.

On a happy note.
Today is St. Barbara’s day and this means all Miners are celebrating. It is also said, that “if it’s icy and cold on this day, Christmas will be warm and wet”.

TM has written”…the French have become the first Western population to take personal risks to oppose financial globalisation. Although they do not realise it, and still imagine that their problems are exclusively national, their enemy is the same force that crushed the region of the African Great Lakes and a part of the Greater Middle East. In order to understand the project which inextricably unites these apparently disparate events, we have to take a step back”. http://www.voltairenet.org/article204208.html

“Earlier in the day, the Israeli Defence Forces tweeted that they were launching an operation to “expose and neutralise cross-border” tunnels that Hezbollah used to attack Israel from Lebanese soil.

“Some actions will be more precise and some less. At this point we are operating within Israeli territory to seize the tunnels… in the future, these tunnels may be destroyed from other locations”, he told reporters.

Manelis went on to say that Israel had warned Lebanon and the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in South Lebanon that anyone who approached the area of the operation, was putting himself in peril.”

As was said on Monday’s Crosstalk, the Guardian has become the “mouth-piece” of UK intelligence “services”

Often here at Saker we see stuff that the Guardian has published proffered as credible.

That’s not a responsible thing to do, is it? Shall we reject Guardian’s stuff, or shall we use it as what Peter Dale Scott called a “reverse template”? This is to ask, shall we see Guardian’s stories as indicators the sign of which is reversed? Shall we use their lies to illuminate the opposite…like the dog that did not bark, or the misc en scene…to see Guardian (now) as useful, because the indications are clearly that whatever they say is disinformation, distraction, deception – and thus deduce from these lies the approximate thing, the approximate truth, that Guardian attempts to conceal?

When G sputters on about, for example “novochok and the disappeared Skirpals – they are, according to a fair analytical method, actually saying the opposite – saying that there was no “nerve gas” and that the UK, not Rus, used BZ or dope and then S papa and daughter were snatched?

Guardian remains useful, but only when one understands what they are…

………………………….

Above I have posted this, which I re-post here – but add that a Carrier Group in now headed to the area ” The US Navy is sending an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf in a message to a belligerent Iran”

“…t a false flag is planned that frames Iran for an attack on the US Navy… I am told he was murdered by Bahreini security services at the request of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) element attached to the fifth fleet. I have no direct knowledge. My source tells me he was murdered because he explicitly opposed the planned false flag attack in collaboration with the Israeli Navy simulating an Iranian patrol boat missile attack on a US naval vassal [sic]…”

Some may recall the affair of the MSTS ship “Liberty” – a false flag that went somewhat wrong – ie the ship failed to sink and the men (many of them) failed to die.

Use their materials as examples of propaganda/psywar, but refrain from linking to the guardian, as the latter provides them fiscal support. It is also what guardian wants and why their minions/workers spam links to the guardian on other websites.*

*The guardian got busted more than 15 years ago for staff there going about the web anonymously spreading links to guardian. Basically, a sleazy marketing ploy. As one can see here, they still practice this.

“A team of materials scientists at Siberian Federal University (SFU), in cooperation with Rusal, have invented a low-cost high-strength aluminium-magnesium alloy that includes scandium and zirconium. What makes this alloy unique is that it requires a record low percentage of scandium.

Scandium is a light silvery metal. Even a small amount of scandium in aluminium alloys substantially enhances strength and makes it more resistant to corrosion.

Scandium-content alloys reduce weight and metal density in steel structures, while significantly improving mechanical properties. Easy to weld, they are ideal in aircraft construction, shipbuilding, auto design, railway vehicle engineering and in the construction industry. Today, however, applications are limited due to the high cost of alloys with 0.25-0.30 percent of costly scandium.

Specialists estimate that the required amount of Al-Sc alloying ingredients per a ton of the new alloy can be lowered by 2.5 times. This will slash production costs by more than $3,000 per ton.

According to Alexander Bezrukikh, aluminium-scandium alloys are now used only in some aerospace and defence industry manufacturing.

“We expect an increase in demand for these new alloys over the coming five to ten years. This advance also promotes the substitution of imported products with high added value,” he said.”

“The Vermont State Police and the Northampton Police Department in Massachusetts have cancelled their annual visit to Israeli police forces and participation in joint training.

Several organisations, including those affiliated with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, strongly opposed the training.

“After a meeting with concerned Pioneer Valley residents, Northampton Mayor Narkewicz withdrew Police Commissioner Kasper from the same trip,” a coalition of organisations, including the Vermont National Lawyers Guild, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Vermonters for Justice in Palestine said in a press release.”

Hum-drum rant, on all that’s wrong with America, above, leaves out something, but what is it? . . . it is the name, and nature, of the problem; and therefore, real understanding of the agenda, at play against us. The naming of the problem is not there, but strangely missing, as usual, and the source of it all remains obscured; and so, ultimately, the diagnosis is the same, and the boogeymen remain incorporeal and bodiless, unconnected to us and to our lives; and there is not, nor was, one single cause! . . . and because effective blame is impossible without a cause, we remain as always, perfectly powerless! And so, why do we accept this causeless effect, and deny causality for our own selves?, are we truly that mindlessly weak? — well, maybe. Or maybe, rather, it is the complete abdication from morality, and responsibility, of our natural societal leaders, our intellectuals? But, in actual fact, we have no “leaders” any longer, and there are no intellectuals, none who think freely for themselves, who think for us, and for our benefit; and thus we are sheep amongst wolves (the unhearing, and the unthinking, and stiff-necked sheep, we always were).

Socialist agenda. America is, and was, a socialist regime. Destruction of all family, destruction of all human identity, destruction of personhood, these are among the key giveaways. You are a socialist, we are socialists. This is a socialist country, the experiment of the USSR stands, perfected! The beast must be named, and unmasked. Many will, foolishly, object to this correct naming. Regardless, this is important.

Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC
Didn’t get to bed last night
On the way the paper bag was on my knee
Man I had a dreadful flight
I’m back in the U.S.S.R.
You don’t know how lucky you are boy
Back in the U.S.S.R.

Been away so long I hardly knew the place
Gee it’s good to be back home
Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case
Honey disconnect the phone
I’m back in the U.S.S.R.
You don’t know how lucky you are boy
Back in the U.S.S.R.

Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the West behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Georgia’s always on my mind.

I’m back in the U.S.S.R.
You don’t know how lucky you are boys
Back in the U.S.S.R.

Show me round your snow peaked mountains way down south
Take me to your daddy’s farm
Let me hear your balalaika’s ringing out
Come and keep your comrade warm.
I’m back in the U.S.S.R.
You don’t know how lucky you are boys
Back in the U.S.S.R﻿

“The US cannot, by any stretch of the imagination or bowdlerisation of language, be termed socialist.”

Sure it is, for large and multinational corporations and those who own these. The motto: “socialize the costs and privatize the profits” describes in shorthand how american “socialism” works. In the real world, where very rich private interests control the government, maintain a police state to reinforce their rule and use the rest of the population as simply a resource to be exploited, this is usually referred to as fascism. But among the pindo extreme right and the zionazi-gays, this is called “socialism” because it isn’t extreme enough for these critters.

… and the intellectuals this cafe is allegedly composed of please and limit themselves by editing a sort of TV program paper: “Here there is a film about…”, “Here NN is saying what he thinks about…”, and, “*Wow!*, here is the proof that someone found me important enough to mention me, if unfortunately shorter than I had hoped for…” Intellectuals should discuss among themselves, trying to come to insights and conclusions, paying attention to what everybody says and what happens to be above average, for retaining is as a common result. Instead, as Bro put it a while ago: It’s all only an ego trip. Toska nesnosnaya…

“Intellectuals” was quoted from Chris k’s post, and he defines them as people “who think freely for themselves, who think for us, and for our benefit”, and, one must add, write down their thoughts, so that others can benefit from them, through reading them. Chris k said there were no such creatures in the american public life (“there are no intellectuals”), and you say there aren’t any in this cafe either. This is your assessment, mine was that there were, but they changed their style and instead of “think freely for themselves” and tell us about it in writing, they now point to others, mostly at youtube, who did something more then pointing at others. What humour has to do with all that, escapes me – are these endless lists of must see advertisements just jokes? You drink them and then you laugh about them, just as in the Deux Magots?

No,
This café is a motley collection of people who are all capable of thinking for themselves if they should care to give it a try, intellectual pretensions or not. A good back and forth conversation, however, requires rather more receptivity and mutual acceptance that the very limited medium of random blog posts has on offer.

Good conversation usually involves a fair bit of laughter too, since we humans are all unavoidably ridiculous and a bit crazy at times, and the facility to laugh at ourselves is the only known antidote.

Drinking, (though I don’t indulge myself, for at least the last 30 years, having drunk my share previously), lubricates conversation like nothing else on earth—even elephants make a point of getting drunk on fermenting fruit, on occasion, as do all social primates. The fermenting of alcohol as a social lubricant and relaxant of inhibition probably predates the discovery of fire.

To your last point, try, just try having a rational extended discussion about important matters (given that each individual has different and personal important concerns and all come from staggeringly different life experiences and personal biases) with a random unknown person on a public comment board and you will understand why I personally reserve such discussion for face-to-face, real-time encounters, where genuine, solid connection is sometimes but quite rarely, possible, and also quite rarely happens over an extended period of time. People change, their individual priorities and concerns change. As they should.

Comment boards are for reading, banter, exchange of news, views, jokes, opinions and information, etc, etc. We can all choose what we take a chance on, respond to or just scroll on by.
Why are you trying to impose rules about how to ‘correctly’ participate?
We already have the moderation policy and I don’t recall a ban on humour or a proscription on lightweight subjects here in the Moveable Feast.

I would like to add to this discussion, which, if I may say, leans somewhat heavily in a direction not entirely.helpful, another quality that any conversational, modern cafe worth its salt, might wish to welcome, even with only a salt-spoon size mental serving, that is, willingness to adopt the possibility of new ideas or ways of thinking,
Unconvinced, disinterested with the Q phenom?Offer an explanation, or describe why not, in individual ways, not derogatory, but positively opening up conversation, why not ?

I find Q utterly uninteresting as, based on my long experience of such gambits (and being a small time operator myself at one time in the organisation or ‘manipulation’ of fellow workers), I know a fraud, con, psy-op (which all amount to the same to me) when I see one.

Since I no longer have responsibilities to discharge in that sphere, when I see or hear of one I vote with my feet and walk the other way as I know how much of a cul-de-sac or dead end they always are.

They are essentially contrived, with nothing of authenticity about them so entanglement in one, even in the interests of abstract investigation, is likely to have a deleterious effect on my painfully maintained equilibrium of thinking clearly for myself. I won’t sacrifice that for anyone, anything, any ideology, no matter how beneficently it is presented.

Additionally, any mass phenomenon is, of necessity, crammed with thought-stoppers, and too close an association eventually turns any thinking brain to mush. Anyone who has painfully worked their way out of one mire will be wary, I hope, of blithely stepping into the next.

My main working background is the gaming industry but I’m not much interested in industry, having had to gamble constantly for survival in life from an early age. That is my real passion and interest and so Q? Trump? not even a blip on the horizon for me—– so not worth immolating even one aging brain cell for.

Here’s Lemmy, Fast Eddie and Philthy on the drums with the raw version:

@Awful Offal A very good and legitimate question. The following is, of course, my opinion. A full explanation would probably require an essay but here are a few points that particularly strike me:

Overemphasis on partisan politics and political figures such as Hillary Clinton. Politicians are mere managers of the system. They aren’t owners and are easily replaceable and ultimately unimportant. The primary threat to US political integrity is large monied interests such as the banks and multinational corporations to whom the politicians report.

Any legitimate nationalist group should recognize Israel as the primary threat to US national security and sovereignty. The apparent prioritizing of North Korea or Iran over Israel as a threat is not credible to me.

The selection of Donald Trump as a champion is contrary to the perceived interests of the Q group as nationalists/patriots. Trump has many times demonstrated complete subservience to the interests of Netanyahu and the polices of the State of Israel. The extent of this subservience far exceeds that of any previous US President.

Ultimately, my own personal litmus test regarding the credibility of an intelligence source would be:

does the source reveal new and verifiable information on 9/11?
does the source reveal new, verifiable and embarrassing information on Israeli military/covert operations.

Our is not the first time that a vast western campaign to encourage the ordinary folks to accept and even relish war… And some highly skilled people used to do this stuff for cinema and so on…

They provide now because of the absurd character of their old work under modern light, perhaps useful examples of how a propaganda campaign works…John Mortimer worked in this area, as did many highly skilled persons… Thus a quaint example:

“The House Republican campaign arm – the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) – was the victim of a “major hack” during the spring as the midterm elections were heating up.

The breach occurred under the watchful eyes of the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which the NRCC was paying for “computer support” at the time. CrowdStrike was previously the source of the claims that rogue Russian hackers invaded the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) servers.

While neither the public nor Republican leaders in the House were informed of what happened in the first eight months following the hack, the NRCC did alert the FBI and CrowdStrike.

Emails continued to be stolen from the DNC for at least 20 days after CrowdStrike said it identified Russian malware as the culprit within minutes of beginning its investigation.

— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) August 24, 2018″

Within minutes. JFC.

“Emails belonging to four top NRCC aides were stolen in the April breach. The NRCC did not tell Republican leaders like Speaker Paul Ryan (WI), House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA) or Majority Whip Steve Scalise (LA). They only learned about the hack after Politico contacted them for comment on the story.

The NRCC had already paid CrowdStrike nearly $80,000 in 2017 prior to the hack, after which they paid the firm another $40,000.

— Deirdre (@DeirinDC) October 30, 2018

The firm did not identify the NRCC hack; an outsourced managed security service provider discovered the breach.

Senior employees at CrowdStrike, including its Chief Technology Officer Dmitri Alperovitch and President Shawn Henry, were no stranger to the perceived Russian threat before starting work at the company. Alperovitch is a senior fellow at the NATO-funded Atlantic Council, which is incredibly hawkish towards Russia, while Henry worked under former FBI director and current special counsel Robert Mueller.

The firm’s knack for attribution is also in question, as it falsely identified Russia as being behind a hack of Ukraine’s artillery systems — a claim that the Ukrainian military itself denied.

The NRCC hired Covington and Burling, a law firm, and Mercury Public Affairs, a public relations company, to help deal with the fallout of the breach. The committee is paying them hundreds of thousands of dollars for the task, according to the outlet.”

So israel’s republican quislings hired the same mossad/cia front the democrats used to falsely claim they were hacked by “Russian hackers” and surprise, surprise, the mossad/cia front again finds “Russian hackers” at. Naturally, these spooks don’t tell those being hacked so israel can continue to access their data.

Haha. What a great idea: hire the same security firm that already dropped the ball … cuz Russians?

Though VT’s reading makes more sense, that CrowdStrike was brought in to provide cover (Seth Rich? Who?), scrub evidence, stonewall the FBI, while actually it’s an intel front, siphoning off data for other nefarious purposes.

“The wellbeing of our staff is our top priority and most of those who’ve left have achieved their goals in employment, study or retirement,” he said.

“We’ve had good support from the South Australian government through this process, including financial support through a co-payment to help staff transition to new jobs.”

The decision to close the Adelaide bottling line came after a national review that recommended boosting production in Queensland and Western Australia but winding it down in SA.https://www.sbs.com.au/news/last-cokes-bottled-in-south-australia
(Coke can be used as a cleaning agent to remove copper oxide … is also a powerful WC stain remover, and some people drink it, despite the fact the ‘whizz-fizz’ is tumbled, tossed and turned against plastic throughout long journeys and then contact soakage in storage.)
“Coke Adds Life” … now say “I believe you” in a very stretched out Russian monotone accent.
When the wife nags me about fixing something … I say “Tomorrow” in a very stretched out Russian monotone accent. The wife responds, “Will you stop talking like that and speak properly.”
When I tell Russian jokes I use this technique to great advantage., throwing in some real Russian for dramatic effect.
I enjoy saying “Sunday” in Russian … vossss-kreeee-sennn-yahhh (воскресенье)

Yes, cleaning off rust from Fe metal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphoric_acid . H3PO4 is present in coke and the non sugar variety is useful for removing and reforming iron oxides, and other oxides as well. I keep some “diet coke” in my tool/work-shed for just this purpose. Not, perhaps an ideal form, but easy to get in places where, like USA, buying ordinary chemicals is often regulated to the point of prohibition, and the “educational system” has assured that almost no high-school graduate knows any chemistry at all.

“Unfortunately, nowadays we see persistent attempts to rewrite history of the Great Patriotic War,” Antonov said on Tuesday. “Those, who stand behind this campaign, resort to defiling sacred memory of millions of heroes in pursuit of their own political gain, I wish to assure you that such attempts will be resolutely rebuffed on our part.”

Antonov spoke before the screening of “Panfilov’s 28 Men” movie at the Russian Embassy in Washington, DC. The film showing commemorates the 77-year anniversary since the Battle of Moscow that marked the beginning of the Red Army’s counteroffensive.

“77 years ago the Nazi troops suffered their first defeat in World War Two near our capital city,” the he explained. “Not only did the Soviet victory help defend the heart of our Motherland. It also ended the Hitler’s blitzkrieg … The world realized that the Nazis could be stopped and defeated.”

The Battle of Moscow epitomized unprecedented heroism of the Soviet people, the ambassador continued.

“No wonder that the ashes of the Unknown Soldier were taken from these battlefields and laid to rest at the Aleksandrovsky Garden [in Moscow] in 1966,” he added. “Since then it became a symbol of heroism and selflessness of our ancestors, who gave their lives for freedom and independence of their Motherland.”

Antonov added that the Battle of Moscow is one of the greatest examples of unity of former Soviet nations.

Panfilov’s 28 Men is the story of twenty eight soldiers of the Red Army’s 316th Rifle Division who helped defend Moscow during WWII and were killed in action on November 16, 1941 after destroying 18 German tanks.”

“On Tuesday, the French government blinked: under intense pressure from the Gilets Jaunes protests – the “Yellow Vests” demonstrating in the streets of French cities for weeks – Prime Minister Edouard Philippe declared a six-month moratorium on the fuel tax increase and froze electricity and gas price hikes for three months.

Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire noted on Monday that the three-week-long protests have taken a growing toll on the French economy, slashing the revenues of small retailers between 20 and 40 percent, the hotel industry by 15 to 25 percent and restaurants, depending on their location, by between 20 and 50 percent, Reuters reported.

​Radio Sputnik’s Loud and Clear spoke with Gilbert Mercier, a French journalist, editor in chief of News Junkie Post and the author of “The Orwellian Empire,” about the developments and their effects on the demonstrations.

​”Too little, too late” seems to be the feeling, Mercier said, not only among the Gilets Jaunes but among many members of the National Assembly as well. “It’s not going to defuse anything,” he said, noting the National Assembly’s reaction was “less than lukewarm.”

However, he noted that “it’s not a coincidence” that the price hikes were being put off until after the European Parliament elections in late May 2019.

Mercier said Philippe’s language was “tone deaf” and he was “saying something people want to hear,” but noted that the government had not offered “the concrete measures that the Gilets Jaunes are expecting — which are numerous — I mean, for example… raising the minimum wage to 1,300 euros a month,” along with other measures such as reimposing the Impots sur les Fortunes, or tax on fortunes, which was scrapped by the Macron government last year in favor of a system that leaves financial assets untouched.

“Since the crash of 2008, there have been austerity measures in France, and if the economy has sort of revived, the salaries of people have not increased. So with an inflation [rate] of between 2 and 3 percent per year, in 10 years, well they’ve lost buying power, they’ve lost about 25 to 30 percent,” Mercier said.

Mercier said the Gilets Jaunes know the Macron government is lying about the causes for the much higher prices of gas in France than in, for example, the United States. “Out of that money, of course the price of crude is pretty much the same everywhere; 64 percent is in tax,” he noted, “but it’s supposed to finance what they call the ‘transition ecologique’… but only 20 percent of that revenue finances that, so people understand that they are really, truly getting screwed, they’re getting taken for a ride.”

“People have to understand… this is the failure of neoliberalists,” Mercier said, noting that Emanuel Macron is the French equivalent of the so-called “Chicago Boys,” a group of economists who trained at the University of Chicago’s Economics Department in the 1970s and 1980s under famed economist Milton Friedman, a vocal advocate of free markets and small governments. “Let’s not forget that Macron, before working in government, was a commercial banker at Rothschild [& Cie Banque].”

“So he does understand certain interests: the interests of finance, the interests of Wall Street. It is failing; it is failing all of us… everywhere.”

Clarifying the same point in the SputnikNews article about the “transition ecologique” being a fraud, Johnstone notes:

Indeed, it is perfectly hypocritical to call the French gas tax an “ecotax” since the returns from a genuine ecotax would be invested to develop clean energies – such as tidal power plants. Rather, the benefits are earmarked to balance the budget, that is, to serve the government debt. The Macronian gas tax is just another austerity measure — along with cutting back public services and “selling the family jewels”, that is, selling potential money-makers like Alstom, port facilities and the Paris airports.

“The U.S. envoy to Syria, James Jeffrey, said at a press conference on Tuesday that Washington is seeking a no-fly-zone over Syria that resembles the one imposed on Iraq in the 1990’s.

Jeffrey said that the U.S. came up with this idea during a “small group” meeting on Syria with Germany, France, Great Britain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt.

The U.S. diplomat said that the no-fly-zone could be observed by a joint U.N. force.

“When we say we’re going to be present not forever in Syria but present until our conditions – enduring defeat of ISIL, as was said earlier, the withdrawal of all Iranian-commanded forces from the entirety of Syria, and an irreversible political process,” he added.”

No doubt another reason netanyahoo’s cowardly trump toy chickened out of the scheduled meeting with Putin.

Strictly speaking, holly or any other plant life doesn’t say anything at all and certainly doesn’t express the human sentiment of hope. What do you call that psychological projection onto plants?— the equivalent of anthropomorphism towards animals? I don’t think that there is a word for it.

Plants obey an imperative, growth or else swift decay and then that’s all, folks. No room for worry or hope and definitely no anxieties about performance. Its an indicator of how much unnecessary anxiety and worry there is in our human world that we project our hopes and fears outwards onto non-cogitating plants and animals.

It makes for good songs, poems, stories etc, though, for a bit of smug reflection in the boring bits between the being scared to death bits. :)

Are the resting buds really smug ( my new fave) or snug as I seem to remember the telling?

South Australians are already reaping the benefits of the state’s giant battery, with a new report suggesting it has saved the electricity grid nearly $40 million in its first year.

A report by engineering company Aurecon found the world’s largest lithium-ion battery built by tech billionaire Elon Musk in SA’s mid-north has exceeded all expectations since operation began a year ago.

The report, published on Wednesday, found the savings to the electricity grid have flowed directly through to South Australian consumers and is reflected in their energy bills.

“We’ve come here today because of the country’s government. It is President Macron and his ministers, deputies and senators, who are responsible for the current situation. Frankly speaking, all the French people, be it the Corsicans, Parisians, Bretons, or Marseillais are in deep s**t. This may sound rude, but it’s true”, the protesters say.https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201812051070405862-corsica-yellow-vests/

Pavel-you must have tried (in the olden days) to tinker with the carburettor-either for performance or economy-Monsieur Macron has just started to experiment in the midst of fuel-injected Europe.Vive La France!

… I do think a politically inspired motor-mechanic (like myself of course) would make for a great leader because mechanics and diesel fitters and power station operators do aim to get results that get machines to run as efficiently as possible. A banker has no idea at all, only in it for self greed and whatever can be extracted for the elite.
(it’s not going to happen … but very thoughtful of you dave ;-)

It’s perhaps not understood by the protected “elites”. generally, that real people see proximate attack as an “invitation” to hit first. VVP said he sees violence this way, so did my old dad – born in the New York of 1912 and experienced at “dealing with” with the Bowery gangs of those days, and so did Belinko – who stole a MiG..”when a fight in inevitable, strike first”….well, yeah. That’s reality…not the coddled environment of the minions of Empire.

I don’t want to be unfair, but honestly I expect that at some point Empire will discover that it’s been hit, hard…though for obvious reasons such “hitting” would perhaps be incorrectly attributed to some other source… nobody says it’s Marquess of Queensberry Rules…

It seems such a hit may be in the form of economics…considering their worship of money… I’m looking at the mechanization around OPEC and the supplies to Europe through the gulf…

Iran’s clearly on the list…and of course there’s at affair in Ukronazilandia too.

“Russian President Vladimir Putin said the United States had decided to leave the accord long before the public announcement and used alleged violations by Russia as a pretext to do it.

“This means that the decision has long been made, but it has been made sneakily. They thought we wouldn’t notice this, but this is already in the Pentagon’s budget — the creation of these missiles. But only after did they announce publicly that they were leaving”, Putin said.

“As the next step, they started to think whom they could shuffle the blame onto. Well, to say ‘Russia is to blame’ is the easiest and the most habitual thing for an ordinary Western person. This is not true, we are against the destruction of the treaty, but if it happens, we will react accordingly”, he added.

The president agreed that many other countries are still developing intermediate and short-range missiles, while Russia and the US had limited themselves under the INF Treaty. At the same time, he added that if Washington believes that it should have such weapons, Moscow will follow suit.

“”This is true. Many other countries, perhaps, already a dozen of countries, are producing such weapons, while Russia and the United States have restrained themselves bilaterally. I believe our US partners think that now the situation has changed to such an extent that the United States should have such weapons as well. What answer will we provide? A simple one: then we’ll do it as well”, Putin said.

He further recalled that the US had unilaterally withdrawn from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty back in 2002, which was one of the key agreements in international security.

“And they still had the audacity, they have withdrawn from the treaty calmly… without referring to anything. They just pulled out from the treaty, and called it a day. In fact, this is exactly what is happening now, but now they reflect on whom they could shuffle the blame onto for this step, which I believe is ill-considered”, Putin told reporters.”

Another reason israel’s trump toy chickened out of the meeting with Putin.

None of the following is my belief. Nor should it be yours. It might be additional evidence to mull over, however.

“D5” was a big deal in the last weeks of Q Drops.

December 5. TODAY.

Huber was to open the Hitlery Clinton Foundation Can of Worms….TODAY…. D(ec) 5.

George was on Ice (so the story goes) to change the agenda, change the narrative, as circumstances might require in these Days of Tension….. A Chip Off The Old Masonic Block to be played at the optimum moment for Lucifer. That’s “The System”……. It is important to control the narrative if mind control is all that keeps your power going.

Then it was announced that he had Just Died and the Dec 5 News would be dominated by an GHWB “Cry In” of weepy eyed globalist traitors and their msm minions…..

Q responded:

“Well played, DS
Please allow us to counter
Q”

The counter (so the story goes) is the announcement that Flynn is Free…No Prison Time…..and is actively working “other investigations”

Bix is kind of interesting. He not into nearly as much “woo-woo” as Cliff High (who amarynth likes in the Cryptoverse……he’s intriguing to me…but I am skeptical of his Pacific Northwest Native Lore Explains It All…..Esoteric World View…) but he’s bold, pulls no punches…and omigosh….even gets around to Q drops re Flynn….in the link above…. And since he does videos together with Cliff ….there may have to be an amarynthian re-evaluation of Mr High real soon….LOL.

I wouldn’t get up tight about it, however. I’d just say, “It’s still an open investigation.”

Bix anticipates A HUGE false flag…as all the Corpse On Ice Trick accomplished was to put off the News of Huber Activation About A Week.

Happy Holidays.

It may be distasteful to consider that Flynn is back because that complicates..the view of DJT that “threw him under the bus” ..but the Imperial Homeland as We call it here….is the Very Center of Current World Political Intrigue…….and I am willing to consider the possibility that everything here is not quite set in stone…….by the Masons in DC or Tel Aviv…yet.

There are People who think that the American Shadow Regime and the Clintons may advise the Democrats to speak Secretly to China and other Countries like Canada, and suggest to them which American Products and Services that China and other Countries like Canada Could/Would put on massive Tariffs on American Goods and Services very close to the next Election for American Voters to Not to Vote for the President in the 2020 Presidential Election, and those Tariffs will be Reversed after the Election, if the Voters Vote for the Democrats or for any Swamp Republicans, because these Swamp Republicans Voted to Impeach and Convict and Remove the President from Office, and the President has either a Lackadaisical attitude or a Fully Swamp Attitude towards Julian Assange, and it is because of the Cynically Useful to the Swamp Corruptocrats and Cynically Useful to the Swamp Republicans, yet Very Legitimate Reason of the President’s Corrupt and Unjust handling of the Innocent Julian Assange matter, because Lawyers can make White look Black and make Black look White, and that is Why Americans think that President Trump Should Act Quickly and Decisively to provide Justice to Julian Assange, rather than what the American Shadow Regine appears to have ordered President Trump to Unjustly pursue, and Voters will consider how American jobs were affected by reactions to Trump’s Tariffs at the next Election.

The Other issue that the War Party Democrats will Entirely Cynically use, is the Fact of the Israeli Ordered Republican Party Illegal and Immoral War against Iraq, and how this Cost the American Taxpayers over 7 Trillion Dollars, because President George Bush the Second was a Puppet of Israel, and they Will say that President Donald Trump is Unnaturally too Close to Israel, and therefore Unnaturally too distant from the American People, and this Could Cost America Extra Trillions of Dollars on Wars for Israel as is happening in Syria, and Many Americans think that Money Should be Spent on America’s Decaying Infrastructure and on Americans, rather than to Waste that Money on Unnecessary Wars for Israel, and which were based Entirely on Lies and on Illegitimate and on Criminal reasons at http://www.usdebtclock.org/ .

In Addition to these Officially Known American Debt Burdens, there are Experts who say that there is a Further 21 Trillion Dollars of American Debt that is Missing and Unaccounted for, and where some American Politicians have Secret Swiss Bank Accounts, and so Draining the Swamp was a Herculean Task for any Honest American President, because the American Shadow Regime can Impeach a President on a Hoax that was Invented by the Swamp Corruptocrats and the Swamp Creature Mueller ‘investigation’ at https://missingmoney.solari.com/dod-and-hud-missing-money-supporting-documentation/ .

President Trump has Appointed Swamp Creatures such as John Bolton and Mike Pompeo and Others at https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/lu795scviwl5uxvwhexf.jpg , and Swamp Creatures like the Company of other Swamp Creatures, and it looks like President Trump is doing Everything he can do to cover up for the Swamp, because he could have been Swamped by the Swamp, or he is a President Jeff Sessions type, and his Voters Want him to Declassify at least a few FISA Warrants, and at least a few other Spygate and Muellergate Documents, if he Represents the American People, rather than Effectively and Subtly showing contempt for the American People with Illegitimate Excuses, and this is regardless of whether the President’s Lawyers write a rebuttal to the Mueller ‘investigation’.

There is No right for the Mueller ‘investigation’ to want further Protection than what the Constitution Already Provides, but the American Citizens are Entitled to Protection from a Long Time Proven Corrupt Swamp Creature like Mueller, who the American Shadow Regime have Secretly Appointed Mueller to Effectively be America’s Unelected and Unaccountable Ruler.

This is Why Many Americans think that Mueller Should sign the Statement of Integrity in Government and of Public Accountability, or he Should be Dismissed because of Not signing the Statement of Integrity in Government and of Public Accountability, and that a Special Council be Appointed to Investigate Mueller and his Team of Slanderers and Liars, so that fewer Americans are that Gullible to think that the President colluded with Russia to win the 2016 Election, or that they do Not Know that Non Swamp Journalists and Non Swamp Politicians are More Likely to be Accurate with the Information they present, than the Swamp Journalists and Swamp Politicians are, and who are Hardened and Compulsive Liars, and those American Voters who do Not know these things should Not vote at Elections, because they are a Danger to themselves and they are a Danger to Friends and Families, and to other Fellow Americans, and if Mueller signs the Statement of Integrity in Government and of Public Accountability, then a Special Counsel is Warranted to be Appointed to Investigate him and his Team, and to Investigate any Mueller Lies and Slanders, and All those Documents Should be Declassified so that Mueller and Others can Answer questions to the Televised Senate Hearings, or that they can hear the Answers given to them if they Pretend to be unable to remember, because All of that Information has been Declassified, and there are Americans who think that if Answers are given rather than being withheld using Illegitimate and Deceptive excuses, then this Will Assist the Investigation, and the Acting Attorney General can override someone being Questioned, and make them answer the Questions even if it Allegedly ‘interferes’ with an Investigation that we Know that is an Illegitimate Lying excuse, because Answering questions can Only Assist with an Investigation, but we have seen how the Swamp Democrats and the Swamp Republicans were able to put on a Conspiratorial Dog and Pony Show under what appears could now be a Secret John Bolton Administration, and so President Trump has been Effectively Impeached by John Bolton, and Effectively Replaced in Office by John Bolton, and this is Proved with what is happening in Serbia’s Province of Kosovo, because John Bolton was one of the Architects of Kosovo at https://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2018&mm=12&dd=10&nav_id=105716 .

The Synergy between Mueller and the Bill Clinton Male Democrats was able to Embezzle over 30 Million Dollars from the Hard Working American Taxpayers, and after having Embezzled those Millions of Dollars, then Mueller went to Visit the Manhattan Madam on the excuse that he was ‘investigating’ Alleged collusion, and so Mueller and the Bill Clinton Type of Male Democrats Needs to Lie and Slander and make up stories of Alleged Russian Collusion in the 2016 Election, after he had Embezzled Taxpayers’ Money with the Help of the Bill Clinton Type of Male Democrats, and we now Know Why the Dog and Pony Show Specialists like Trey Gowdy and others Resigned at the last Election, because Americans Know that they are the Experts for Dog and Pony Show coverups, and this does Not purge the Secretly Filmed Puppets of the American Shadow Regime, because New Secretly Filmed Puppets Will Replace the Old Secretly Filmed Puppets, and this goes Unnoticed to Many American People, and there are Americans who think that because John Bolton and Mike Pompeo are the President and the Vice President, because Donald Trump has been Impeached and Replaced with John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, then there Could be some Americans who think that there might need to discuss Debating having Tree of Liberty Jeffersonian type of Body Guards to be body guards of some American Elected Representatives, and these Jeffersonian Body Guards would Protect Americans from their own Swamp Creature Dictators who want them to die in WW 3, and there are Americans who want to Know the attitude of John Bolton and Mike Pompeo toward the Second Amendment, and there are Americans who think that Donald Trump Should Resign if he is Pretend President, and we Know that the American Shadow Regime is being Subtle and Deceptive, and perhaps Donald Trump Secretly gave up the Presidency to John Bolton in exchange for Immunity from Mueller, even though the original Charge of collusion with Russia to win the 2016 Election was/is an Obvious Lie, then we do Not know if Mueller has Dredged up some other Crime, possibly with Taxation Evasion matters, that one of his former Lawyers or former Accountants informed Mueller, which Mueller is Keeping Secret, perhaps because Donald Trump has given the Presidency to John Bolton, and Donald Trump is Wealthy enough to Bribe Mueller, but if Mueller is being Bribed, it is by the Corruptocrats, and perhaps the American Shadow Regime now have their Swamp Puppet John Bolton as their Secret, yet Real President of America, and the current Donald Trump is Noticeably Different to Candidate Trump, who said that he Loves WikiLeaks, and it is because Donald Trump appears Not to be Speaking for himself, but possibly for President John Bolton, and this is Not Unprecedented, because History has shown that Elanor Roosevelt had to be the Secret yet Real President, because of the Health Problems of President Roosevelt, and WikiLeaks Emails Show that had Hillary Clinton won the Election, then there Would have been a Secret Huma Abedin Administration, because Hillary Clinton was constantly tired because of her Many Health Problems, and Many American’s, except for the Swamp and their Secretly Filmed Puppets are Grateful to WikiLeaks and to Julian Assange, for Publishing Leaked Emails that Americans were Entitled to Know for the 2016 Election regarding Hillary Clinton’s Health Problems, and Donald Trump Knows that for as long as he has the Title of President, then he is Free from Prosecution, but he thinks that he Needs to appear to be President, because as a Patriot, Donald Trump Knows that his Official Impeachment could be disruptive to America, and American Voters do Not consider President John Bolton and Vice President Mike Pompeo to be a Dream Team for the 2020 Elections, and we saw how Nick Ayers did Not accept the Position of Chief of Staff for Donald Trump, because it could be that he Suspects that America has a Secret Bolton/Pompeo Administration.

We Know that Julian Assange has been Granted Asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in Britain, by Ecuador’s previous Government, and we Know that Trump Administration Officials have Visited Ecuador very Recently with regards to Assange, and so it appears that Ecuadorian Officials would possibly have been Secretly Filmed Already, and therefore Already Puppetized by the American Shadow Regime.

Perhaps the American Shadow Regime Meddled in Ecuador’s recent Election to Install their Puppets in Ecuador who may have been Secretly Filmed by America’s Shadow Regime, and the Proven Swamp Liar Obama said Hope and Change, and Candidate Donald Trump said Drain the Swamp, and there are Americans who think that Britain, America, and Ecuador Should do themselves a Favour, and Spread Millions of Copies of the Statement of Integrity in Government and of Public Accountability in English for Britain, Australia, and America, and Spread it throughout Britain, Australia, and America, and Spread Millions of Copies of the Statement of Integrity in Government and of Public Accountability in Ecuador’s Official Language of Spanish, and Spread it in All Spanish Speaking South American Countries and Mexico, and drop All Charges against Julian Assange and give Julian Assange Compensation, and Diplomatic Immunity, and a Diplomatic Passport.

That is Why America, Julian Assange, and Ecuador Need to Secretly Spread Millions and Millions of Copies of the Statement of Integrity in Government and of Public Accountability in English and in Spanish, because it is too Risky and Controversial for them to sign it, even though I think that Wikileaks Should Publish The Statement of Integrity in Government and of Public Accountability, as something that was sent to them, if it was sent to them, because I Would have done this Long Ago if I was in that position as Julian Assange is, in order to Change the Perspective and the Narrative, and to make it Known that the Real Reason for his predicament is Not because of committing any crime(s), but it is because the Anglo American Shadow Regime Knows that Julian Assange is a Campaigner and Champion for Integrity in Government and for Public Accountability, which the Anglo American Politicians are Paid to also want, but that this is Unacceptable to the Devious and the Corrupt Anglo American Shadow Regime and their Puppets, and if Julian Assange refuses to Defend himself in this manner, when he Needs to Defend himself, then that is his decision, and there Could Easily be Consequences for a Person Not Defending themselves, even as those who practice unhealthy habits have to think for themselves, and there are adverse health consequences for unhealthy habits, and that the Acting Attorney General asks Mueller to Investigate the Publication in WikiLeaks or some other Publication or any possible Inundations of The Statement of Integrity in Government and of Public Accountability to the Offices of Elected Representatives, by Anonymous American Citizens, because they found that Statement published on WikiLeaks, and that the Acting Attorney General asks another Special Counsel to Investigate these things, and that Mueller Team have to Recuse themselves from Mueller Investigation during that Investigation, and to Ensure Public Accountability, then the Entire Spygate and the Entire Mueller ‘investigation’ is Declassified, because it is now a Public Investigation, and Perhaps the Acting Attorney General Should ask Mueller if he wants to sign that Patriotic Statement, or Strongly Suggests that given these circumstances that Mueller Should sign The Statement of Integrity in Government and of Public Accountability, because other Public Servants have signed it, because it does Not incriminate anyone who signs it, even if they are unknowingly Guilty, and it is Not a confession, because it is a Confirmation of their Minimum Fitness to Serve in such Positions of Public Trust.

The Statement of Integrity in Government and of Public Accountability, where Millions of Copies Should be Distributed, by Ordinary People in Britain, America, and Ecuador, and any other Country that thinks they Need this in their own Language, like Canada that would Need it Also in the French Language, and where Slackness on Proper Principles by President Trump Should make the President pay 50 Million Dollars of the President’s own Money, as a Just Fine imposed upon President Donald Trump, and as a Reminder to All Americans that the President was Elected for Leadership, and Not for Swampship, and the Trump Campaign may receive More than 50 Million Dollars Extra in Campaign Contributions from Republican Voters, because they think that the President is Not a Swamp Creature, because of how he Compensated Julian Assange, and Julian Assange Published Only what was Leaked to him Anonymously and that he said those Emails were Not Leaked by a State, and WikiLeaks published what the American People had a Right to Know for the 2016 Election, and Manning was Pardoned by President Obama, because President Obama Knew that Manning and other Millions of Americans should Not have had Security Clearances, and it was because Obama Knew that America is a War Criminal Rogue State that owes Serbia 30 Billion Dollars Compensation, and America Should just put the Money in Serbia’s Bank Account with No questions asked, and this War Crime was committed by Bill Clinton with the Help of Hillary Clinton to distract from his Monica Lewinsky Affair Scandal, and the Anglo American Mainstream Media Knew All of these things back then, and they currently Know All of these things, and Decent and Honest People of the World Know that the Clinton are War Criminals.

An Honest News Article says: How much do you know about Slobodan Milosevic, the recently deceased former President of Yugoslavia? Here’s 10 statements that we’ve all heard many times in the western media these last seven days. But which of them are true and which are false? 1) Milosevic was a dictator. 2) He was a Serb nationalist. 3) He was responsible for the break up of Yugoslavia. 4) His 1989 speech at Kosovo Polje was a nationalist rant that inflamed ancient ethnic hatreds. 5) He started four wars. 6) He was responsible for the massacre at Srebrenica 7) He ordered a systematic program of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. 8) He was toppled by a ‘democratic revolution’ in 2000. 9) The trial at The Hague had produced evidence of his guilt. 10) He will be mourned by ‘only a few’. How many do you think are true? Seven, eight- all of them? The answer is zero. Every single statement is untrue at https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/21/tenquestionsonslobodanmilo .

All Honest Elected Federal Representatives, and All Honest Federal High Public Officials, including current Special Counsels or those that may be Appointed in the future as Special Counsels, and All Unbiased British, American, and Ecuadorian Journalists Would be the type of People who Want to Sign this Statement of Integrity in Government, and of Public Accountability, in order to Qualify and to Show at least their minimum Fitness to Serve in such Positions of Public Trust, and the Statement of Integrity in Government, and of Public Accountability says the Following: “While I Deny All such accusations against myself, Yet, I Confess, that there Could be some British, American, and Ecuadorian Politicians, and some British, American, and Ecuadorian High Public Officials, and some British, American, and Ecuadorian Journalists, who have become the Puppets of America’s Shadow Regime, because America’s Shadow Regime has Used elements within America’s Police and America’s Intelligence Services and the FBI, to Obtain the Dirt on certain Influential British, American, and Ecuadorian Citizens, and that certain British, American, and Ecuadorian Politicians and certain British, American, and Ecuadorian Journalists and certain British, American, and Ecuadorian Public Servants have become the Puppets of America’s Unelected Shadow Regime, and that these Puppets may have been, either Secretly and Unwittingly Filmed in Acts of Bestiality and or Pedophilia, or they may have been Recruited by Existing Puppets of America’s Shadow Regime, and they Volunteered to be Willingly Filmed in Acts of Bestiality and or Pedophilia, as their Guarantee to their Rich American Shadow Regime Puppet Masters that they Will Always be their Unprincipled Puppets for Fame with Fortune, and to Receive the Assistance from their Shadow Regimes and the Puppets of those Regimes, wherever those Corrupt Shadow Regimes can help their Unprincipled Puppets Avoid going to Court or Prison, because those Shadow Regimes look after their Puppets who they are Able to, and who they Do Blackmail, and who they Do Control, and so these People Will be the Puppets of their Evil Puppet Masters, either Foreign or Local, and therefore, these Puppets have become, either the Willing, or the Unwilling Traitors to the People of their Countries”.

With regards to Climate Change, then very briefly, but Very Accurately, then Research shows Carbon Dioxide does Not cause Global warming, that in 2025, the Larger Planets of Jupiter and Saturn, along with Neptune and Uranus Will be behind the Earth, and they Will pull the Earth away from the Sun for a few years, which Will increase the distance of the Earth from the Sun by an Extra 6 % , and that means that the Northern Hemisphere will receive 11 % Less sunlight in Summer, and this Will Cause Strains on Crops and it Will Cause a Mini Ice Age at https://www.solarsystemscope.com/ , and the Earth was heating up Slowly for Decades, and it was Wrongly assumed that that trend would continue, but Solar Activity occurs in Cycles, and with lower Solar Activity, then the Planet is now cooling until the next Solar Cycle, and some People thought that they Could make Money from selling Expensive alternative energy, and so they Lied and Slandered Innocent and Vital Carbon Dioxide, and they have continued with that Lie that Carbon Dioxide is a problem, because they are Receiving Bribes and Government Subsidies for that alternative energy, but that will Not solve the Problem of the upcoming Mini Ice Age, and those who Should and Do Know Better at The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the American Congress and the American Senate have heard of Nazi Death Cults, because they Know that America was Founded by Nazi Death Cults, and they Should/Do Know that Hundreds of Millions of People, including Millions of Americans who are Relatives of other Americans could/would die in the Upcoming Inevitable Catastrophe of the Mini Ice Age, and there are Americans who think that All Americans Should Know these things, and Write to their Elected Representatives that they should Never Slander Innocent and Vital Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, if they want their Votes, and they Should Promote the Benefits of More Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere, while they can speak of Sulphur content in diesel fuel or Soot because of Coal Power Plants, if these things are of legitimate concern, but that they Should Only mention Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere Positively, and these Americans could send their Elected Representatives a Copy of The Statement of Integrity in Government and of Public Accountability, and there are Many Poor Countries at the United Nations that want to use the Mini Ice Age to Migrate their People to Wealthier Countries, and that is Why they do Not want Borders or National Sovereignty for Countries, and they Also want Carbon Taxes which are of No use to Prevent the Mini Ice Age, but some of that Carbon Tax Money can be Deposited in Secret Swiss Bank Accounts.

This will cause Global Cooling, and a Mini Ice Age, and it Will cause the Earth’s crust to Contract, which Will Increase the likelihood of the Earth’s Crust Cracking, and this will Increase the likelihood of More Earthquakes and Volcanoes, Specifically Land based Volcanoes, rather than Sea based Volcanoes, because Land based Volcanoes emit Much More volcanic ash into the Atmosphere, and the former Co Founder of Greenpeace, Professor Patrick Moore says that levels of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere does Not cause Climate Change, and that the Earth Needs 5 times the amount of Carbon Dioxide that it currently has, and that will be Needed for Agriculture to hopefully have enough crops during the Mini Ice Age, and he says that the Oceans dissolve All the ‘excess’ Carbon Dioxide that Humans can create.

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